imo, I believe utlising options for trading (with hedged and leveraged postions in order to capture reasonable profits while limiting losses) by itself is an edge.

"A smart strategy seeks to avoid catastrophic risk at all times, to profit by real or implied volatility explosions, and to limit time decay loss." --- Baird

I think trading (constructing, managing, etc.) options would require a lot of reading and research with examples and data. Here are some books with lots of data and examples that I found quite practical and useful: